Mika Hakkinen Dario Franchitti Photo: Richard Dole 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, and his first...
Scooter Patrick, who will forever be remembered as the last driver to post a victory in the original unlimited Can-Am series, has passed away at the age of 83. Patrick began racing in 1960 at Riverside’s USAC Road Racing Championship round in a Porsche. He raced occasionally for the next...
Karl Kling David Brown 1 Ferdinando Minoia drives an Isotta-Fraschini to victory in the Coppa Florio race in Italy (1907)....
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Christopher Arthur Amon MBE died this morning at the age of 73 in Rotorua Hospital in New Zealand, having battled cancer the last few years. Amon will likely be remembered as the best driver never to win a Formula One Grand Prix, though he did take a pair of non-championship...
Women drivers in Formula One are rare indeed. Since the start of the F1 World Championship in 1950, only five...
When I was young, growing up in Spain was very difficult for lovers of motor racing. The Spanish were then...
Denny HulmePhoto: Hal Crocker Jim ClarkPhoto: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 The TWR Jaguar XJR-6 is driven for the first time in a test session at Snetterton, England, by Martin Brundle (1985). 3 Michael Kranefuss, NASCAR team owner and one-time head of racing at Ford, born (1938). Become a Member &...
McLaren Automotive will return to the Goodwood Festival of Speed next weekend, June 23-26, with a celebration of race wins...
A field of nearly 40 Can-Am cars is expected to be in action at the 2016 WeatherTech International Challenge with...
As you’ll read in this month’s Racecar Profile, I was given a rare opportunity to drive one of the ultimate iterations of the Can-Am car, the championship-winning Shadow DN4. As you’ll also read, the thought of driving this car scared the crap out of me! Over the past 20 years...
Denny Hulme Gianpiero Moretti 1 Gober Sosebee, driving a Chrysler, wins the NASCAR Grand National race at Hayloft Speedway in...
We all know their names, and they all would tell you that we do because they won this one race....
Rick Mears will always be known as one of the few men ever to win the Indianapolis 500 four times, but despite an Indycar career of legendary proportions, the guy once called “Rocket Rick: The Fastest Man on Four Wheels” was no one-trick pony. As we know, he started out...
What kind of racing driver is it who forgets how many times he’s won? One of the most successful, of...
I didn’t think it was a very good thing for a woman to drive those open and powerful cars of...
Eddie Rickenbacker Rick Mears 1 Roberto Lippi drives a Stanguellini to victory in the Formula Junior race at Vallelunga, Italy (1958). 2 Gerhard Mitter and Udo Schutz lead a Porsche 908 1-2-3 finish in the Targa Florio road race in Sicily (1969). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
The McLaren F1 is regarded by many as the car which rewrote the supercar rule book. With only 64 roadcar...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was established by the FIA (Federation...
In this profile we explore the life and afterlife of a more modern Formula One car. Indeed, what does happen to old Formula One cars? I mean those multi-million dollar hi-tech racers of not too many years ago. Each and every year the dozen, or so, competing teams produce a...
Eddie Irvine has been a shrewd operator for most of his adult life. He carefully maneuvered himself into the second...
The first time I recall sitting in a racing car was as a child at the BRM works at Bourne,...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheeled racing. In the late ’50s, Formula Two and Formula Three were consolidated into Formula Junior. However, with that category’s demise at the end of...
Next July’s Silverstone Classic has announced plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary Can-Am Series with a pair...
After concluding arrangements with Patricia and Amanda McLaren, widow and daughter of the late Bruce McLaren, TMP, the company that...
The theme for Goodwood’s 2016 Festival of Speed, set for the weekend of June 23-26, will be “Full Throttle—The Endless Pursuit of Power,” with the event celebrating the most powerful competition cars and bikes in the history of motor sport. Alongside its central theme, FoS 2016 will also celebrate the...
The famed McLaren F1 and its creator, Gordon Murray, will be celebrated at the 2016 London Classic Car Show, to...
McLaren Honda has announced today that Tyler Alexander, one of McLaren’s founding fathers, passed away on January 7, 2016, at...
The chaotic scene just after the #88 car of Huhn/Schwarz crashed at the Nürburgring in 1970. Photo: Porsche Werk Motor racing has always involved risk for the drivers, and sometimes for spectators too, as was seen to horrific effect in the disaster that occurred at the 1955 Le Mans 24...
